I was born and spent the first 30 years of my life in Miskolc. This city in Northeast Hungary has never gotten enough love from tourists and travel books. Lonely Planet said that Miskolc,...
After two long winters of our discontent, German weather, and lockdown, we traveled to sunny Arizona. We stayed with friends near Tucson for the first week, then we drove up north to explore the...
Welcome back after a long break and a busy summer. Our family was trying to make up for the travel opportunities lost during the lockdown. We traveled to Bavaria, Hungary, the Netherlands, and most...
Famagusta is a city on the east coast of Cyprus. Visiting the city of Famagusta isn’t off-limits. However, Famagusta has a suburb called Varosha. You cannot enter Varosha, the forbidden city of Cyprus. Getting...
Talking about places: Between Scilla and Cariddi In this picture, I am standing above the town of Scilla (pronounced “Sheel-lah”). It is in the tip of the Italian boot, on the Calabrian shores of...
The city of Messina had a key impact on the history of Europe. Messina has a natural harbor, a scythe-shaped peninsula. This is where the Black Death arrived to Italy.The plague arrived in Europe...
Cyprus has more to offer than beaches, so why not head to the mountains, towards the middle of the island. The island abounds in cultural sites and religious monuments, both ancient Greek and Orthodox Catholic. One...
Follow the footsteps of Aphrodite, the ancient Greek goddess of love and beauty, and discover the sites dedicated to her on the Island of the Love, Cyprus. Cyprus is full of locations that are,...
Idar-Oberstein is a town in the southwestern German province of Rhineland-Palatinate (Rhineland-Pfalz). The precious stone and garrison city is also called the “National Park City Idar-Oberstein.” Larger cities in the vicinity are Trier, Bad Kreuznach,...
The Gallery of Milano Almost every Italian town has a street called Victor Emmanuel II, the first king of a united Italy. Milan is not just any Italian town. It is a metropolis, the...
